Posted on June 19, 2008 by Matt Hacker
As the streets of Cedar Rapids start to get cleaned up, one can only ask themselves, how long is this going to take? Well I think that is a question that is weighing on everyone’s mind, but nobody has an answer for it.
The now displaced and disfunctional downtown area of Cedar Rapids, IA is going [...]
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Posted on June 17, 2008 by Matt Hacker
I went downtown this morning in Cedar Rapids, IA before I went to work and took some pictures of the downtown area after the flood waters have receded. It is bad…very bad. After being down there this morning, I can say that it is going to take a very long time to get [...]
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Posted on June 12, 2008 by Matt Hacker
The following are photo galleries of the Flood of 2008. All photo galleries are from GazetteOnline.com.
Photos: Flood damage in Lamont
Photos: Flooding in Vinton, Manchester
Photos: Water rushing at Coralville Dam
Photos: (6) Thursday flooding photos
Photos: (22) Marengo flooding
Photos: Looking back: The Flood of 1993
Photos: Iowa River flooding off Hwy 965
Photos: (65) Iowa City/Coralville Area
Photos: Cedar Rapids [...]
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Posted on June 11, 2008 by Matt Hacker
The flooding is continuing to put a major damper in everyone’s lives. There are many areas of Cedar Rapids, IA that have been evacuated. Right now one of the four bridges that go over the Cedar River has been closed and city officials say that they believe the other three are not too [...]
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Posted on June 10, 2008 by Matt Hacker
As many of you know, the state of Iowa is starting to flood. I don’t mean a little water here and a little water there. I do mean Iowa Gov. Chet Culver has declared 44 of Iowa’s 99 counties disaster areas. I also mean that this flood is going to be worse [...]
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